Phone taps catch drug dealer mum

MOTHER-of-four Sharon Marie Talbot had taken to trafficking in methylamphetamines to support her own drug habit.

A police operation targeting a drug dealer in Toowoomba had picked up Talbot through a number of telephone wire taps speaking with the target, Toowoomba Supreme Court heard.

Crown prosecutor Kathleen Millican told the court the 41-year-old had been picked up on 37 telephone calls organising the collection and distribution of the drug between November 27, 2010, and March 2, 2011.

Talbot had been a link in the chain of supply to the drug dealer who had since died, Mrs Millican said. On one of the telephone interceptions Talbot is heard saying that her "gear is always top grade".

She had been found with a small amount of the drug during a police search of a Toowoomba motel room months before the trafficking period, the court heard.